Trump’s religion is hypocrisy

Donald Trump, who, if not atheistic is certainly irreligious, is now selling Bibles to raise money.

The irony is almost beyond description. The best I can do is “opportunistic religious hypocrisy.”

Neal Snyder, Columbus

With so much animosity between the two political parties there is no room for compromise, cooperation or meaningful progress.

When a large number of House Republicans provided a budget proposal to address the potential insolvency of Social Security, Democrats immediately called the proposal “extreme” without offering any proposal of their own.

The top Democrat on the house budget committee called the proposed changes “an attack on seniors, veterans, and the middle class.”

However, the Republican proposal left all current Medicare recipients unchanged, would not impact those who will soon be on Medicare, and made modest increases in the current Social Security age of 62 for those years away from reaching this age.

Republicans equally are unwilling to consider any Democratic proposals.

For example, efforts by the Biden administration to address immigration problems are met with immediate rejection with no Republican counter proposal.

Republicans believe immigration is a winning campaign issue, and are determined not to have any resolution on Joe Biden’s watch.

The losers, given both political parties’ unwillingness to listen and consider the other side, are the American people. It is reminiscent of the African metaphor “When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.”

We can only hope that the current divisive attitude will give way to reaching positive solutions sooner rather than later.

Bob Weiler, Columbus